Title: "It's Feed Corn, Not Sweet Corn" - Iowa is well-known for its huge fields of corn. This does not mean there are thousands of road-side stands selling corn for corn-on-the-cob. The corn is feed corn which tastes pretty good to cattle, but is not too tasty for humans.

* Two Clinton Cabinet Secretaries - According to the Washington Times, the judge "ordered the government yesterday to pay $625,000 for the 'disobedience' of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin in withholding documents of a lawsuit involving the mismanagement of Indian trust funds."

* Would someone travelling with Al Gore - Gore, who has been reduced to campaigning with Bill Clinton, is attached at the hip to this administration and all of its problems.

* The Public Television station in Washington - a large number of public tv stations were caught swapping lists with the Democratic National Committee, in violation of the spirit - if not the fact - of the internal revenue code.

* The Iowa Republican party is preparing to welcome - Mullings is off to Iowa to cover the straw poll. There will be special Mullings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Check your e-mail the mullings.com web page.

* I was in New York City - The Algonquin Hotel was the home of the famous (or infamous) "Roundtable" at which people like Dorothy Parker, HL Mencken, and Robert Benchley held court and said awful things about other famous people. Tullulah Bankhead occasionally sat in, about whom Ms. Parker was alleged to have said, ""She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."